As election day approaches, Phil Murphy, the Democratic contender for New Jersey governor, spoke at a local New Brunswick restaurant in an attempt to spread a message to make sure voters, including millennials, turn out to the polls.

In the basement of an annex of the historic Christ Episcopal Church in New Brunswick, New Jersey — where the third public reading of the Declaration of Independence is believed to have taken place in the summer of 1776 — hungry families have been finding assistance for almost 20 years.

Immediately after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Kaiser Aslam said he was mortified about the social implications of praying in public at an airport. Now, he is worried about the legal ramifications of simply boarding a flight.

If Josue Serrano, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, managed to get an audience with President Donald J. Trump, he said he would not use the statistics he usually relies on to get his points across, but rather, he would ask the president one question.

Equipped with drums, hymns and bilingual chants, more than a hundred city residents, immigration activists and Rutgers students assembled outside of the New Brunswick City Hall on Tuesday afternoon to demand protection for the city’s undocumented residents.

Major urban centers across America have vowed to defy the administration of President Donald J. Trump and remain “sanctuaries” for their undocumented residents. A city official said New Brunswick is not one of those cities.

In his remarks to the graduating Rutgers Class of 2016 last year, President Barack Obama criticized Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who presented a snowball on the Senate floor last year as evidence against the existence of climate change.

An unpredictable and long national campaign has culminated, and now, America will either elect the first woman president in its history in Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton or send a businessman in Republican nominee Donald Trump to the White House.

Heavy engineering course work, a job at a café in her hometown of Passaic, N.J., and her own financial hardships as an undocumented student did not waver Carimer Andujar’s resolve to help others in similar predicaments.

Around the same time he came out as a gay man, Jeremy Atie remembers watching Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton talk about LGBT rights at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.